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Bridge closure outside Bangor postponed for a week

Updated July 16, 2017 at 9:23 AM;Posted July 16, 2017 at 7:43 AM

The start of construction on the Lower South Main Street bridge over Waltz Creek in Washington Township, Northampton County, has been delayed from July 17 to July 24, 2017, according to the contractor. (Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com)

The start of construction on the Lower South Main Street bridge over Waltz Creek in Washington Township, Northampton County, has been delayed from July 17 to July 24, 2017, according to the contractor. (Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com)

Lower South Main Street is one way around the ongoing replacement of the Messinger Street bridge in Bangor. That $6.26 million project is scheduled for completion in December, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

It is one of 558 bridges being replaced under Pennsylvania's Rapid Bridge Replacement Project.

Plenary Walsh Keystone Partners represents a consortium of companies working under an $899 million state contract to finance the Rapid Bridge Replacement work up-front, design the bridge replacements, complete the projects and maintain them for 25 years.